Re: Sound Card

[Steven Pritchard <steve@osiris.silug.org>]

Jeff Licquia said:
> The situation with sound support sucks right now.  It's getting
> better, though.  I guess that's what happens when you rely on a person 
> whose main income derives from a commercial version of that free
> code.  (Can you say "crippleware"?)

Hannu has completely abandoned the kernel sound driver, AFAIK.  Alan
Cox maintains it these days.  It's much better than it used to be...

There's always ALSA too...  See http://alsa.jcu.cz/.  There's a mirror
of the ALSA FTP site in /pub/alsa/ on our site too.

> It is my understanding that zImage kernels are almost officially a
> thing of the past with the 2.2 kernels.  The uncompressed kernel (plus 
> necessary data areas, LILO space, etc.) no longer fits in 640K of RAM.

Sure it does.  I haven't seen a need to go to bzImage.  In fact, I
think the footprint of my kernels have gotten smaller, since more of
the kernel is modular than in 2.0.x.

If your kernel won't work as a zImage, you probably have too much
stuff compiled in.  You should think about modularizing or eliminating
a bunch of drivers.

> bzImage kernels shouldn't be a big deal.  If your LILO doesn't support
> them, it's *really* old, and you should upgrade anyway.

There are also some machine that just don't like bzImage kernels.
(Those machines are broken, of course, but they are somewhat common,
at least in older machines.  Something about a broken A20 gate...  A
quick search of any linux-kernel archive should explain the problem.)

Steve
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